MONEY IN SHARKS
OIL) TINS, AND MEAT PRODUCTS
(From Our Special Representative.)
SYDNEY, 27th May. - fcomeone once said that the Chicago meat-packing factories used everything of the pig. but its squeal. It can be said with equal truth of the shark utilisation factory at Carnarvon (Western Australia), that it discards only the sea monster's ability, to bite. This factory is the first 'actually in commission here, though severarprojects are on foot' to open similar establishments-both in the Eastern Australian States and New Zealand.
/At Carnarvon, the factory is • thriving. The liver of the shark is,used, for the extraction of an oil which is claimed to ;j be even better than the better known cod liver oil. The skins of the monsters are stripped and used for leather, later to be converted to encase milady's feet and for her handbags. The flesh is filleted, salted sun-dried, and exported to satisfy the delicate tastes of rich Chinese. The fins are' also ;'dned and exported, to appear later as that most-prized delicatessen of : the, celestial, shark-fin soup.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 11
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174MONEY IN SHARKS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 11
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